Bristol University Italian Department
Bristol
Joined April 2012
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Our Deputy Language Director on the importance of creative teaching @Lan_GW4 @BristolSML
AI and Biga data are not the only skills on the rise. #CreativeThinking is projected to grow in importance faster than any other soft skill. At @Lan_GW4 2025 I spoke about why Language Teachers are ideally placed to help students develop it.
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Had the most amazing time at @BristolItalian, co-teaching a class on Beatrice in Purg XXX-XXXI with @tristanjkay, introducing students to 19C women dantiste and then presenting with #francescasartori the #ModernBeatricesArchive in the evening to a great audience. – at Bristol, England
Very exciting to see our student magazine La Civetta out. With special focus on Italian migration to Britain
🚨🇮🇹🎄 The wait is finally over, our December 2024 issue is out now!
You can now read our online version on Joomag, just follow the link below:
joom.ag/gY7d
Our PhD student Francesca Sartori has curated this great exhibition in Ravenna with @FedeColuzzi at Warwick. Opens today!
Nick Havely (York) is visiting us this week to discuss his great new book Apennine Crossings. His talk, entitled 'Dante's Mountains and Nineteenth-Century Travellers', will be at 4pm in LR8 on Thursday 7 November. All welcome! Event co-sponsored by @BristolCMS
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So this is happening, somewhat belatedly, Thursday. All welcome if you fancy free Prosecco and some yarns about the bad old days of Italian studies..😀
Great to see this blog post from our PhD student Tom Baker on his research internship this summer on Italian terrorism
🚨 The first in a new series, PhD Italian candidate Tom Baker tells us about working with Prof @Footymac on the Italian terrorist trials of the 1970s and 80s
Read how the pair created a database mapping the activity of groups during the Years of Lead 👇
bit.ly/3zqQfG0
ALT The photo above was taken by Paolo Pedrizzetti in Milan during the ‘Years of Lead’. The young man in a ski mask (centre) was a member of a far-left organization which pulled out their pistols and began to shoot at the police, killing policeman Antonio Custra on May 14, 1977.
Welcome to our new students, and welcome back to our returners! We hope you have a wonderful year in Bristol
The most recent issue of the Italian dept student magazine La Civetta can be read online. Congrats to the editors and contributors!
tinyurl.com/ycx7zvwh
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'It suited almost everyone after Mussolini's fall from power in 1943 to blame him personally for the disasters of the war'
Prof John Foot (@BristolItalian) questions Italy's national memory of the Second World War in a new piece for the @LRB
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n10/…
Our students presenting the 10-year anniversary celebration of the dept magazine @CivettaMagazine! Music, wine-tasting, magicians… an afternoon to remember! Congrats to them!
Today! In honour of the Festa della Liberazione, screening of the film Bimba col pugno chiuso. Discussion with @AmyCKing and @DrStefaPlacenti
ALT Poster for screening of film Bimba col pugno chiuso (Little Girl with Iron Fist), an Italian animated documentary (with English subtitles). This film tells the overlooked story of Giovanna Marturano, an Italian antifascist, partisan and feminist. Today, 4pm, LT2. Followed by discussion and drinks
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Next Wednesday 28th @ 4:30: Girlhood in Italian Screen Culture, ft. Danielle Hipkins and Silvia Angeli @d_hipkins @BristolSML @BristolFTV
ALT Poster for event on Girlhood in Italian Screen Culture. Wed 28th Feb, 4:30, G65. Silvia Angeli on Alice Rohrwacher. Danielle Hipkins on A Girls Eye View. Italian Female Adolescents and Representations of Girlhood.
Congratulations to @BristolItalian graduate/former colleague Dr. Amy King on the publication of her book! Will be a must-read for those interested in memory and Italian history
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Congratulations to Prof. Ruth Glynn on becoming the new Chair of the Society for Italian Studies! 🎉🎉
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Book launch for the books by myself and @MiguelGaggiotti also ft. JD Rhodes (Cam). 15 Feb. All welcome! We can discuss whether The Rock is a non-professional actor. @BristolFTV @UoBArtsMatter
ALT Poster for book launch, 15 Feb, 5pm
A final reminder of Prof. Dennis Looney's talk today at 4pm! All are welcome at what should be a great event. Details below. Dennis will also be co-teaching Tristan Kay's Dante finalists this morning.
